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For example, the English verb to perjure is reflexive, since one can only perjure oneself. In a wider sense, the term refers to any verb form whose grammatical object is a reflexive pronoun , regardless of semantics; such verbs are also more broadly referred to as pronominal verbs , especially in the grammar of the Romance languages .
[1] Reflexivity may be expressed by means of: reflexive pronouns or reflexive verbs. The latter ones may be constructed with the help of reflexive affixes (e.g., in Russian) or reflective particles (e.g., in Polish).
This means verbs agree with a third person subject (despite having a second person referent in reality) but unlike a true reflexive object pronoun (which requires a definite verb ending), verbs using formal/polite pronouns conjugate for definite or indefinite objects as that verb's actual object requires. Compare the following:
Most Indo-European languages do not have special reciprocal affixes on verbs, and mutual relations are expressed through reflexive constructions or other mechanisms. For example, Russian reciprocal constructions have the suffix -sja (-ся, 'self'), which also has reflexive and passive interpretations.
7.3.1.3 Reflexive verbs. 7.3.1.4 ... if the verb stem ends with one of the consonants of ... The numbers 1 and 3 have irregular ordinals. 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th
Reflexive relation, a relation where elements of a set are self-related; Reflexive user interface, an interface that permits its own command verbs and sometimes underlying code to be edited; Reflexive operator algebra, an operator algebra that has enough invariant subspaces to characterize it; Reflexive space, a subset of Banach spaces
For reflexive verbs -ся/-сь suffix is added in the end. Note that due to phonological effects, both -ться and -тся endings (latter is used for present-future tense of a 3rd person reflexive verb; see below) are pronounced as [t͡sə] or [tsə] and often cause misspellings even among native speakers.
The negative form would not + verb negates the main verb, but in the conditional and intentional mood in the first person the intentional modality may also be negated to indicate negative intention. will has a number of different uses involving tense, aspect, and modality: [ 5 ] : pp. 21, 47–48 [ 25 ] : pp. 86–97,